The following are a few of the quotes from
many different sources that have had a particular impact on me

BALTHUS

Today contemporary artists look to express their
personality. What a mistake! If a piece of work only expresses
the person that made it, it is just not worth doing. I want to
give painting its universal sense.

A. DE LAMARTINE

All is quiet
Only my heart speaks in this silence
The voice of the universe is my intelligence.

Carré devient Courbe
Aquarelle - 2002

DOM ANGELICO SURCHAMP

From your point of view which aspects of artistic creation
are closest to spiritual experience?

There are criteria – which in some ways are “rational”,
especially in architecture: function, relationship, proportion,
volume and space. Bad proportion is irretrievable; it is in this
way that criticism is founded.

SAINT-THOMAS

“Ars imitatur naturam in sua operatione” – Art
imitates nature in its process. It imitates neither in its appearance
nor effect, but in its “transformation”. It observes
how creation takes place and is inspired to react differently,
nevertheless in parallel.
Art is exigent and austere if practised honestly.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

To create is life itself, its affirmation, its
constraint.

FRANZ KAFKA

Growth in man does not start from the bottom up
but from the inside to the outside.

BRANCUSI

I do not believe in creative suffering. The mission
of art is to create joy. One can achieve artistic creation in a
state of balance and spiritual peace. Peace is acquired through
self-denial.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Mauve holds it against me for having said: “I
am an artist”. I am not backing down, because it is obvious
that the word implies in itself: “always looking for but
never finding perfection”. It is quite the contrary of “ I
already know it, I’ve already found it”. This phrase
means, as far as I know: “ I’m looking, I’m pursuing,
I am putting myself heart and soul into it”.